Name: Dog Howl In Tune
Brand: Vivian Stanshall

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Limited edition

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2023-07-14

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Vivian Stanshall

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Psychedelic

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Madfish

Madfish is an alternative label established in 2009, specializing in Rock & Progressive genre. It is a division of Snapper Music plc and is also known as Mad Fish and Madfish. With its focus on these genres, Madfish has become a go-to destination for music lovers looking for unique and cutting-edge sounds. As part of the Snapper Music family, Madfish brings together a diverse range of artists and releases that are sure to captivate fans of rock and progressive music.

Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit. He rose to fame as a member of the Bonzo Dog Band in the late 1960's before embarking on a solo career. Known for his idiosyncratic style and creativity, Stanshall's most famous creation was the saga of Rawlinson End, featuring spoken-word pieces and original songs. Despite struggles with alcoholism and depression, he collaborated with various artists and created two solo albums showcasing his love for rhyming slang and absurdist puns. Stanshall left behind a legacy of comic and musical originality.

Perhaps Vivian Stanshall's most notable work was his involvement in the Bonzo Dog Band during the late 1960's. After their split in 1970, he pursued a solo career characterized by its variety and fertility but also interrupted by periods of inactivity due to personal challenges.

Stanshall gained recognition for his creation of Rawlinson End, which started as a short track on a Bonzo Dog Band album but evolved into sprawling spoken-word pieces accompanied by original songs. These stories depicted an eccentric world of English aristocracy filled with intricate wordplay and surreal imagination.

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During the last five years of his life, ex-Bonzo Dog Band solo artist Vivian Stanshall, was working on a final album of music to follow up his much-loved 1981 album Teddy Boys Don't Knit, which featured classics such as 'Terry Keeps His Clips On', 'The Cracks Are Showing' and 'Ginger Geezer'. Stanshall had spent his time in the 1980's working on his 'English Comic Opera in the Grand Tradition' Stinkfoot, which first ran at the Old Profanity Showboat in Bristol Harbour in 1985, with a later revival in London. He had also found success writing material with his friend Steve Winwood, co-writing the title track to 'Arc Of A Diver', working on Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells 2' (he had been an integral part to the original 'Tubular Bells' as the narrator) and various advertising campaigns including 'Lemsip', 'Cadburys' &amp; most famously 'Ruddles Beer'.

For a considerable period, Vivian had wanted to record and release another rock album and had been collecting songs as far back as the 1970's. With money he earned from his advertising work, he funded various recording sessions and had interest from a major record label, but sadly he tragically died in a fire before an album could be completed.

The twelve tracks on this album are taken from a selection of sixty or so finished or nearly completed recordings on the tapes left by Vivian Stanshall, as his hitherto unpublished legacy.

Andy Frizell (The Wizards of Twiddly, The Coral and Kevin Ayers) is a musician and producer who worked with Vivian briefly in 1994. Using the surviving recordings, he has pieced back together Vivian's final album adding where required, the missing instrumentation but, at all times, paying reverence to the original vision. The collection includes the Beefheartian monster mash blues of 'Dog Howl In Tune' - also the title track - as well as the wistfully melancholic 'No Time Like The Future' on an album that wears its heart fully on its sleeve. It is by far the most biographical album Vivian ever made and draws on songs from 'Stinkfoot' and other projects. 'Goodbye Mother' is the poignant last song from the project 'Shackleton', based around the exploits of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, which never saw the light of day whilst 'Boy In Darkness' was written by Vivian for a project with Steve Winwood - Winwood's version yet to be released.

Musicians include Jack Bruce (Cream), Ollie Halsall (Pato), Susie Honeyman (The Mekons), Neil Innes and Rodney Slater (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band), Mike Kellie (Spooky Tooth) &amp; others.

Dog Howl In Tune

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